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Somerset took 22 points from the game to Nottinghamshire’s two and look set to make a strong challenge for a first ever Championship title.

Notts coach Peter Moores said: "I think it was a 400-pitch to start with and Somerset's score was about par. Then they got a good ball to use because it swung and they used it really effectively, while we didn't bat well enough.

"From then on we showed a lot of fight to take the game down to the last hour. We had a decent chance at tea and if we had taken a wicket straight after the interval it would have created pressure on Somerset.

"Credit to Steve Davies for the way he played after tea. As an experienced player, he decided to take the game to us and with two or three boundaries it felt like things were slipping away from us."

It took the hosts nearly an hour to take the final two wickets at the start of the day, an indication that the pitch was not going to offer much assistance to the bowlers.

Davey claimed both to gain reward for his nagging accuracy. Carter, who had lofted two sixes off Roelof van der Merwe, was caught behind for 20, while Luke Fletcher was bowled off stump for 21.

Somerset rarely looked in trouble in their second innings on a typical fourth day Taunton wicket, which offered slow turn, but precious little else for the bowlers.

Eddie Byrom made 22 in an opening stand of 29 with Renshaw before being caught behind pushing forward to Steven Mullaney.

Renshaw added to his three hundreds in eight innings for Somerset with a solid half-century off 91 balls, with seven fours and a six, and found a reliable partner in 20-year-old Bartlett, who played impressively before being bowled by Carter on the back-foot looking to force through the leg-side.

Renshaw followed with the total on 154, caught at slip edging a defensive shot off Carter, and if there was a moment of doubt for Somerset it came on the stroke of tea when James Hildreth, on 21, fell to a diving short-leg catch by Billy Root off Carter.

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That made the score 163 for four at tea, with 85 still needed. But Davies quickly erased any doubts about the outcome with the innings of the day, starting with 3 fours off successive balls from Carter.

The wicketkeeper looked in prime form as he and skipper Abell put the Notts attack to the sword in the closing stages to complete a convincing victory.

Somerset now face successive away games against Surrey, Essex and Worcestershire in the Championship. Renshaw will be available for all three matches, but this was his last home appearance in the competition before heading off on an Australia A tour in August.